Employees work inside a steel bucket manufacturing unit at an industrial area on the outskirts of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, visitors skate at the Tower of London ice rink, people attempt to extinguish a fire at the site of an explosion in Beirut and more in today’s daily brief.

A zoo worker counts penguins during a photocall at London Zoo in London January 2, 2014. The annual stocktake is a compulsory count, with the results data shared with zoos around the world and used to manage the international breeding programmes for endangered animals. (REUTERS/Neil Hall)

A western lowland gorilla named Kumbuka is seen near a posed sign during a photocall at London Zoo January 2, 2014. The annual stocktake is a compulsory count, with the results data shared with zoos around the world and used to manage the international breeding programmes for endangered animals. (REUTERS/Neil Hall)

Visitors skate at the Tower of London ice rink in London January 2, 2014. Based in the grounds of the famous castle which is over a thousand years old, the temporary rink remains open until January 5. (REUTERS/Toby Melville)

Employees work inside a steel bucket manufacturing unit at an industrial area on the outskirts of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad January 2, 2014. India’s factories lost momentum last month as softness in new domestic orders prompted firms to lower production growth, but demand from abroad picked up, a survey showed on Thursday. (REUTERS/Amit Dave)

People attempt to extinguish a fire at the site of an explosion in Beirut’s southern suburbs January 2, 2014. The powerful explosion in Shi’ite group Hezbollah’s southern Beirut stronghold killed three people on Thursday and sent a column of smoke into the sky, a witness said. (REUTERS/Khalil Hassan)

People gather at the site of an explosion in Beirut’s southern suburbs, January 2, 2014. The powerful explosion in Shi’ite group Hezbollah’s southern Beirut stronghold killed three people on Thursday and sent a column of smoke into the sky, a witness said. (REUTERS/Khalil Hassan)

Stone-throwing Palestinians, wearing gas masks for protection, are silhouetted during clashes with Israeli soldiers after the funeral of Saeed Jaser Ali, 85, in the West Bank village of Kufr Kadum near Nablus January 2, 2014. Ali died on Thursday after inhaling tear gas fired by the Israeli army to disperse protesters in the occupied West Bank, witnesses said. (REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman)

Relatives mourn before the funeral of Palestinian Saeed Jaser Ali, 85, in the West Bank village of Kufr Kadum near Nablus January 2, 2014. Ali died on Thursday after inhaling tear gas fired by the Israeli army to disperse protesters in the occupied West Bank, witnesses said. (REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman)

Michael Schmacher’s manager, Sabine Khem, speaks to journalists in front of the Grenoble CHU hospital on January 1st, 2014 where the Formula One legend spent a third night in hospital in an induced coma after an off-piste skiing accident in the French Alps. The retired racing driver is in a coma since December 29, 2013 when he fell while off-piste skiing in the French Alps and slammed his head on a rock. Doctors on December 31, 2013 said he had slightly improved but was still in critical condition. (Jean-Pierre Clatot/AFP/Getty Images)

People hold glasses of champagne as they celebrate in the 6.5 degrees waters of the Lake in Geneva, during the New Year’s traditional bath, on January 1, 2014. Some 60 swimmers took part in the 20th edition of the traditional bath to mark the New Year. (Fabrice Cofferini/AFP/Getty Images)

People look at a cyclonic swell, near Saint-Denis de la Reunion in the French overseas island of La Reunion, on January 1, 2014. The Indian Ocean island has been placed on pre-alert cyclonic yesterday by local authorities, due to the proximity of the Bejisa hurricane with gusts of up to 235 km per hour. (Richard Bouhet/AFP/Getty Images)

Spain’s Rafael Nadal serves the ball to Germany’s Tobias Kamke during their tennis match in Qatar’s ExxonMobil Open in Doha on January 01, 2014. (Marwan Naam/AFP/Getty Images)

Indian sadhus arrive for the forthcoming month-long Hindu ‘Magh Mela’ festival in Allahabad on January 1, 2014. The Magh Mela is held every year on the banks of Triveni Sangam – the confluence of the three great rivers Ganga, Yamuna and the mystical Saraswati – in Prayag near Allahabad during the Hindu month of Magh which corresponds to mid January – mid February. (Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty Images)

A cyclonic swell sweeps a pier on January 2, 2014, in la Possession, in the French La Reunion overseas island.The Indian Ocean island is placed on red-alert today, due to the proximity of the Bejisa hurricane with gusts between 120 and 150 km per hour and may even exceed 200 km per our on the reliefs exposed. (Richard Bouhet/AFP/Getty Images)

Apartment blocks form a symmetrical pattern in Hong Kong, on January 2, 2014. Home prices in the southern Chinese city have risen by 120 percent since 2008, and by more than 30 per cent from their previous peak in 1997, with prices in the luxury market being pushed up by wealthy buyers from mainland China. (Alex Ogle/AFP/Getty Images)

Flames rise from burning cars at the site of a car bomb that targeted Beirut’s southern suburb of Haret Hreik on January 2, 2014. A large car bomb killed five people and wounded at least 20 in south Beirut, a health ministry source told AFP. (AFP/Getty Images)

Indian children swing from a tree in the Maidan area of Kolkata on January 2, 2014. The Maidan (or open field) is the largest urban park in Kolkata and is known as the lungs of the city’, stretching over more than a thousand acres. (Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images )

A man faces fierce winds on January 2, 2014 in Le Port, in the French La Reunion overseas island. The Indian Ocean island is placed on red-alert today, due to the Bejisa hurricane with gusts between 120 and 150 km per hour and may even exceed 200 km per our on the reliefs exposed. In early afternoon (13h19GMT), the storm made its first casualties – one serious and seven light – and its first damages, including more than 80,000 homes without electricity. (Richard Bouhet/AFP/Getty Images)

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